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Rotorua – Thermal Pools

Today I left the hostel around 8:30 am and started my hike/long wonder around the parks here in Rotorua. The first park with Thermal Pools is only 5 minutes from my hostel, so the fun begins very soon!

When I arrive at Kuirau Park, the place is empty. I am the only person walking around, which is nice. I take my sweet time, just looking at each pool, and chasing some of the funny looking birds.

The park is really kept up. I am impressed at how nice everything is.

After about an hour of going, ewww and awww, I decide to continue into the next walkway.

Waterfront walkway was only 15 minute walk from the park. Not bad and no hills, so I am very happy.

The first thing I see is a pretty cool looking tour paddle boat. Similar to the ones I saw in New Orleans a few years back.

As I get closer to the boat, I also see a million, give or take a few, Black Swans. I later found out, they are not native to New Zealand, but were imported from Australia a while back. Still pretty cool bird, and a lot bigger than I expected.

The entire walk to Sulphur Point and back to the main street only took 45 minutes. I got a lot of cool pictures in such a short walk.

The rest of the afternoon was rather uneventful, until later in the evening. Around 6 pm I decided to walk down to the local brewery called Brew. Very creative name! Here I got a flight of tasters and enjoyed a nice relaxing 4 beers. Mmmmmm! So happy.

When I got back to the hostel, two Aussie guys were about to but on the 3rd Hobbit movie. They asked if I wanted to join and I said, “Why not!”.

During the movie we basically talked the entire time. The conversation mostly was about the different animals in both countries, and I found out that not all Aussies like snakes and spiders. These two were both very scared of them. I now don’t feel so bad about hating snakes.

When the movie ended I said goodbye and safe trip to the two Perth boys, and headed to bed.

The next day my flight is not until much later, so I spent a good amount of time sitting in the smaller common room wasting time after my checkout. While sitting here, a young German girl came into the room to do the same. After a few minutes Isabel and I start talking about where we are headed today, and where we have both traveled. She is a really funny girl. Always smiling and laugh at my lame jokes. Maybe I am funnier than I think, I will let this go to my head. 🙂

Isabel just left me, and I am now going to waste another hour before walking to my bus, which will then take me to my airport here in Rotorua.